Patrik Elgström
The studio serves as a starting point of my works, as the hub of the story. I map and explore Berlin in a series of walks through the city’s historical centre of power. Past the areas that form another Berlin. The space between the houses and buildings. Space that represents a pause while waiting to […]
Olaf Brzeski
Olaf Brzeski’s artistic narrative could begin like this: ‘In the beginning was the subject’ – meaning a distinct, virtually modernist, authorial Self. The question whether such a construed, ostentatiously individualistic subject is not perhaps a reactionary figure is better left to those who like to judge art in terms of progress. Defying the logic of […]
Chris Sauter
Drawing from varied sources such as architecture, history, science, agriculture and religion, my work explores the links between biology and culture, the present and the past, the personal and the universal. My principal strategies are, transforming common objects into other recognizable objects and juxtaposing disparate materials and images. In the process, popular dichotomies are recognized […]
Greg Semu
I explore themes of cultural displacement and the significance of identity. Using photography, sound and film, I create evocative dialogues to challenge the romanticised colonialist documentation of “first contact”. The Berlin residency will allow me to research and mine the historical treasures reflecting “colonial” Samoa in German institutions, museums and galleries, with the prospect of […]
Róza El-Hassan
I was born in Budapest of Syrian and Hungarian origins. I grew up in the western part of Germany, near Düsseldorf, and German became more or less my native language. Since 1992 I have been working and participating in exhibitions internationally. One of the works that best epitomises my practice from that time is Stretched […]
Mikko Rikala
What are the possibilities for man to observe and understand the world beyond the rational mind? This is the essential question Mikko Rikala seeks to instantiate through his work. Epistemological by nature, his work examines the tension between “seeing”, which can be equated with the realm of physics and its measurable dimensions as a form […]
Samnang Khvay
Samnang Khvay engages with concepts of mediation, change and continuity, offering new interpretations of historic events, long-standing cultural practices and contentious current affairs. Khvay holds a BA in Painting from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh (2006) and is a founding member of the artist collective Stiev Selapak and the art venues […]
Jorge Pineda
Jorge Pineda combines the moment and the process of masking with a kind of traumatophilia in which the practice of art is, properly speaking, the sublimatory impulse. The artist himself has underlined his interest in the effects of traumata, focusing on the fragility of childhood. His work leads us into a dark domination or, to […]
Youki Hirakawa
In his work Youki Hirakawa explores the state of things immersed in time, which he conceives of as a river. To do so, he starts by isolating objects or phenomena from their original context, which he then displays in site-specific photographic or video screening situations. The exhibition space thus becomes part of the temporal structure […]
Charles van Otterdijk
Over the past five years Charles van Otterdijk has been working on Double Centre, a project based on the discovery of two specific locations on the German-Polish border. Double Centre addresses the culture of surveillance and the way in which information is controlled and mediated – by the artist himself and, by inference, to society […]